Yemen: Fear Knows No Fast

For more than a month Yemenis from both
Royalist and Republican factions have been holding "peace talks" at the
mountain village of Haradh to end the bloody (10,000 battle deaths)
civil war that has plagued the country for three years. They have not
been very successful. The conferees, who held their sessions in white
tents symbolizing peace, never got past the first point: what to call
the transition state that was supposed to exist until a country-wide
plebiscite could be held in one year's time. The Republicans insisted
that the word Republican...